On Wednesday, November 19, 2025, during the US-Saudi Investment Forum held at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk left and Nvidia Inc. CEO Jensen Huang attended.
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tesla CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday that it will be several years before Nvidia’s new self-driving car models become serious competitors to the company’s fully self-driving (FSD) technology.
during the CES conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced Alpamayo, a family of open artificial intelligence models for autonomous development.
Musk responded to the revelation with an X post from a user who likened the system to Tesla’s FSD. Musk said it will be years before self-driving technology becomes much safer than human drivers.
“Traditional car companies won’t be designing cameras and AI computers into their cars at scale until several years from now,” he said in the post. “So this will probably be a competitive pressure on Tesla within five to six years, but probably for much longer.”
Nvidia described Alpamayo as a vision language action model that applies “human-like thinking” to self-driving systems to make decisions about rare or novel scenarios.
The billionaire said in another X post on Tuesday that NVIDIA will find it “easy to get to 99%, but after that it will be very difficult to solve the long tail of distribution.”
FSD is central to Tesla’s long-term vision and revenue growth strategy.
Last summer, the company launched a limited robotaxi service in Austin, Texas. Tesla also operates a ride-hailing service in San Francisco, but drivers are always behind the wheel.
Musk has been promising self-driving electric cars for more than a decade, and last August he said the company was training a new FSD model.
